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SIR GEORGE KENNING, J.P.. chairman of the Kenning Group, celebrated his 74th birthday last Friday.
MR. CHARLES SINCLAIR, sales staff executive of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., is to retire after 53 years in the tyre industry.
MR. JOHN GRAHAM REECE has become a director of J. Blake and Co., Ltd., Liverpool, main Ford dealers. His father, MR. W. REECE, was a founderdirector.
M. D. J. F. JACKSON has been re-elected chairman of the Western Division of the Traders' Road Transport Association. The vice-chairman is
MR. C. J. HORSLEY.
MR, PETER ELLIS, Of Sheffield Transport . Department, has been elected chairman of the student and graduate society of the Sheffield Section of the institute of Transport.
MR. I. R. STEELE has been appointed to succeed MR. J. H. H. BAXTER as private secretary to MR. HUGH MOLSON, M.P., Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.
MR. S. C. BOND, national chairman of the Traders' Road Transport Association, has been appointed to represent industry on the East Midland Transport Users' Consultative Committee.
MR. A. J. BRIDGEFORD, Brecon and Abergavenny area manager of the Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd., is to retire at the end of this month. Mr. Bridgeford, who has been with Western Welsh since 1929. is 75.
MR. C. T. BRUNNER is now director of marketing of Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., in the new executive plan of the company. A well-known road transport economist. -he is a past president of the Institute of Transport.
MR. H. IRWIN, B.SC.(TECH.), M.I.MECH.E., works manager and director of Triplex (Northern), Ltd., has been appointed this year's chairman of the north-western branch of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Ma. A. LENNOX-BOYD, Minister of Transport, is to visit the north-east on June 18 tosinvestigate the need for road improvements in the area. it is likely that he will discuss the proposed road tunnel under the Tyne between Jarrow and Howdon.
MR. A. L. WATERFALL has been re-elected chairman of the Yorkshire Region of the Institute of the Motor Industry, and MR. W. Hui, deputy chairman. The honorary secretary is MR. FRANK LOCKWOOD and the honorary treasurer Ma. P. R. BAUGH.
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MR. A. C. Csaitou, traffic superintendent of the Central Scotland Group of British Road Services, has left this position.
LORD RAMSDEN has, on account of ill-health, resigned his seat on the board of G. Beaton and Son, Ltd. M. J. C. KEY has been elected a director.
MR. L. HOWELI. has been appointed technical manager of Hepworth and Grandage, Ltd. 1-Fe has been succeeded as chief designer by MR. F. E. COCKROFT. MR. ELIJAH HEPWORTH sales director, and MR. J. F. FERGUSON, export manager, have recently been meeting customers in South Africa and Greece, respectively.
MR. H. W. B. Ricitsans, of Salopia Saloon Coaches, Ltd., Whitchurch, Salop, has been elected chairman of the West Midland Area of the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association. The vice-chairmen are M. W., A. GttEstoEx, of Greatrex Motor Coaches, Stafford, and MR. P. Wan, of Wards Pullman Coaches, Sidemoor, Bromsgrove.
MR. H. W. ALDRIDGE has been appointed an officer of the London Transport Executive with the title of treasurer. He has succeeded MR, H. S. CHAPMAN, who retired after 50 years' service with London Transport and its predecessors.
FIVE-DAY WEEK DISLIKED
TRANSPORT operators regarded persons who worked a five-day week as "public enemy No. 1," said Mr. J. M. Fleming. Glasgow district goods superintendent of British Railways, when he addressed the Glasgow branch of the Incorporated Sales Managers' Association last week.
He said that a substantial amount of traffic arrived for delivery on Friday or Saturday, yet on Saturday morning a half-day's delivery work could not be completed because the premises were closed or occupiers would not be bothered to take goods in.
He made a plea for more thought to be given by industrial concerns to transport problems. There was a tendency to plan a factory and set up a sales organization before considering how goods were to be moved to the customers.
SALOPIA TOURS: CROSVILLE TO SURRENDER LICENCES?
AN application has been made by Salopia Saloon Coaches, Ltd., Whitchurch. Salop. to pick up passengers on their extended tours at Chester. If the North Western Licensing Authority grants it. Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., will, it is understood, surrender licences held by them for extended tours originating from Chester and for picking up in the city.